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Is the power on?

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I don’t know how many times I have asked (yelled) that of my wife to see if we had power after hooking up to the shore power at an RV park.  In our old trailer we had a nightlight plugged in by the stove and I could see it by peeking in a window.

With the newer Airstreams I have seen, they have a blue LED at the power cord receptacle on the trailer.  I thought that was a great idea.  You can check right there that power is being fed to the trailer.  When we were looking for a new trailer I don’t remember thinking about that feature.  However, when we got our trailer I looked for it.  It wasn’t there!

Our trailer has the 50amp, dual A/C option.  I would not have probably purchased that option if I had the choice but we got a real good deal on the trailer.  It was unfortunate that it was not there.  So what to do?

Make my OWN! (well sort of)

I really like LED’s and wanted to do something with an LED.  In further research I did not know how to hook it into 110v and to light an LED without making some grandiose circuit.  In looking around at Chicken (Radio) Shack I found a solution.  A neon light.  They natively run on 110v.  They aren’t as efficient as LED but I don’t care when I am on shore power.

I know what I am going to use for an ‘idiot’ light but where to put it.  I needed access to 110v and want to be able to readily see it.  The solution was taken from running coax cable in our old trailer.  To do the coax I ran it through the refrigerator access door.  Opening that door you had access to the entire area behind the refrigerator to run the coax up the wall and out to the interior.

The added benefit of using the refrigerator access is that the refrigerator is there and therefore a 110v outlet.  Problem solved.

Here is the solution.  With the light off and then with the light (power) on.

Light Off

Light Off

 

 

 

 

 

Light On

Light On

 

 

End of an era

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era:  A system of chronology dating from a particular noteworthy event.

The end of an era has come and another one, or two, are beginning.

As posted before, we now have a new Airstream.  This means we don’t want to have 2 of them so we will follow in my parent’s tradition and give our old one to our son.

Here is the last hookup with the old Airstream:

Last tow

Kind of brings a tear to the eye…

 

The Airstream era for me started here (more or less):

Start of an era

I am the short one in the picture.  My parents had 6 Airstreams, this was the first one.  The one we are passing down to our son is the last one my parents had.

My era continued and our families started when they gave us the Airstream in 2001.  We took as may trips as we could.  Here is another ‘generational’ picture:

Yellowstone

That is us with our daughter Hannah.  You can see the Airstream in the back.

 

Now we have delivered the Airstream to its’ 3rd generation, our son Aaron.  He has to store it and get a tow vehicle but I am sure he will enjoy it immensely:

Aaron and Paige

Wait!  Who is that with him?  That is Paige, his daughter.  Hmmm…  This trailer could possibly be a 4 generation trailer!!  We will see.

Thank you 25′ 1992 Airstream Classic Excella.  You have served us well and faithfully.  We now pass the title of “Casa Rodante” on to our new one.